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Livingston Enterprises products (Portmaster and IRX routers) running ComOS were x86
by Thoreandan 3y ago
Livingston Enterprises products (Portmaster and IRX routers) running ComOS were x86
- EvanAnderson 3y agoOh, good point. I didn't even think about embedded devices. The Cisco PIX firewalls were originally PCs w/ Intel motherboards (SE440BX, I believe) before becoming embedded x86 designs. I don't know how far the x86 legacy continued into the ASA and Firepower follow-up devices.
- nonamesleft 3y agoI seem to recall that USRobotics Total Control (dialup servers, ISDN PRI E1 (E1 for me in EU) / T1) to ~30ish dialup lines/ISDN BRI used x86 in the form of 80386ex (386 without real mode). Whether it was 386ex or just a 386 is a bit hazy as it has been 25+ years since i last opened one up. I think each line card that supported analog modems up to 4x 56kbit per card had one, along with some DSPs. Also old Lucent WaveLAN (802.11 era, possibly even the non-standard predecessor) access points had a x86 processor sbc in them.